{"id":"CVE-2025-54988","summary":"Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA","details":"Critical XXE in Apache Tika (tika-parser-pdf-module) in Apache Tika 1.13 through and including 3.2.1 on all platforms allows an attacker to carry out XML External Entity injection via a crafted XFA file inside of a PDF. An attacker may be able to read sensitive data or trigger malicious requests to internal resources or third-party servers. Note that the tika-parser-pdf-module is used as a dependency in several Tika packages including at least: tika-parsers-standard-modules, tika-parsers-standard-package, tika-app, tika-grpc and tika-server-standard.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.","aliases":["GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x"],"modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:20.610499071Z","published":"2025-08-20T20:08:49.481Z","related":["CGA-fpm3-9gj4-h78g"],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-611"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54988.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.13"},{"last_affected":"3.2.1"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"},{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.13"}],"source":"DESCRIPTION"}],"cna_assigner":"apache"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/2"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00030.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54988.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54988"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/apache/tika","events":[{"introduced":"386b68b5ae87beafacfb63f33e0a9888dedb9c30"},{"fixed":"c5c9d00e475d48226dfe3f80a2891bfa5426043a"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_RANGE","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.13"},{"fixed":"3.2.2"}]}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-54988.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}